So, where does the waste come in? The Government continues to spend taxpayer dollars recklessly. Universally, the “price tag” for the Government’s purchase of GM has been estimated (best case scenario) at 100’s of billions of dollars. You might ask, “What is the current market value of GM”?

Clearly, the Obama Administration has not asked this question. Today, May 28, 2009, GM has a “market cap” or “market value” of something less than $700 Million dollars. GM is not worth even $1 Billion Dollars, let alone the $100’s of billions being committed to this “political folly”. With this type of business acumen the entire endeavor is doomed to failure. A “Market Cap” is the “total value” of all of a Companies outstanding stock. At the close of business on May 28, 2009, the total value or “Market Cap” of all GM stock was $683 Million dollars, something just over 1/2 a Billion Dollars.

So why, exactly, is the Obama Administration paying 200% of GM’s current value to take over the failing company? I have no idea and Congress hasn’t bothered to ask. I can tell you this, no business consortium, no group of private investors would ever embark on such a course of action. No investor group would pay that amount for GM. To do so would result in a Bernie Madoff type “perp walk”. GM’s stock is currently trading at $1.12 per share, yet the Obama Administration is “investing” upwards of $150 a share in taxpayer money in this boondoggle. Only a politician woudl refer to paying 130 times the true value of anything an “investment”.

The Obama Administration is having American Taxpayers pay a “Toyota Price” for a “GM value”. This is beyond the ridicuolus, it is criminal. The Obama Administration is paying for Toyota and getting GM in return.